Re: Syntax Question...

From:

Greg Wooledge

Subject:

Re: Syntax Question...

Date:

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:24:41 -0400

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:41:19PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Ken Irving wrote:
> >Maybe this?
> > today_snaps=( ${snap_prefix} )
> but as you mention, that will put them into an array....sorry "imprecise
> terminology".... list for me is some number of objects in a string
> separated by some
> separator.
This is an extremely bad idea. Legacy Bourne shell code from the
1980s kind of bad -- from the horrible days before we *had* arrays
in shells. How are you going to handle filenames with spaces in them?
With newlines in them? With commas in them? With colons in them? Tabs?
DEL characters? Those are all valid in filenames. Any delimiter you
can *put* in a shell string is also a valid character in a filename (or
at least in a pathname, which eliminates the possibility of using slash).